Damascus-SANA
(The Last Dreamer) a new collection of short stories by writer Wijdan Abu Mahmoud, which included social concerns, humanitarian and patriotic issues, and came in an easy style dominated by modernity that possesses the components of literary storytelling.
In her new collection, the writer Abu Mahmoud expressed great love for her homeland, Syria, in a symbolic manner, in which she resorted to naming people by the name of the homeland, expressing many human cases through her love for the homeland, as stated in the story (Queen of Endings of Stories).
In the collection, Abu Mahmoud refers to the evil of terrorism, the seriousness of its plots, and the human and social negatives it leaves behind, as mentioned in a number of stories such as (In the Heart Completely) and (The Beast of Thin Hanaya).
In the story (Frafa), the writer Abu Mahmoud embodied the value of the martyrs and the greatness of their status, in addition to addressing some moral and humanitarian issues.
The collection (The Last Dreamer) issued by the Syrian General Organization for Books, which includes 159 pages of medium size, came in a style that combined modernity and originality and left a psychological and human impact on the world of the story.
It is noteworthy that Wejdan Youssef Abu Mahmoud, a member of the Arab Writers Union (The Story and Novel Society), and the head of the As-Suwayda Governorate branch, wrote one of her books in the story (The Breaker of Stillness, The Riot of Basalti, Say Something, The Magic of Cups, The Carnival of Death in Dance, and The Decade of Time in Science Fiction) and she won many awards, including the Center First in the Syrian Ministry of Culture Award for Children's Literature in 2018.
Muhammad Khaled Al-Khader
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